In case of a severe accident, the key to saving lives is the time between the incident and when the victim receives treatment from the first-responders. In areas with welldesigned emergency medical systems, the time for an ambulance to arrive at the accident location is often not too long. However, in many low and middle-income countries, it usually takes much longer for an ambulance to arrive ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) claims the lives of almost 300 000 Americans each year,1 a loss of life equivalent to that caused by a September 11 World Trade Center attack on the United States every 3 days! Despite advances in public education on recognition of cardiac arrest, early notification of emergency medical services (EMS) 9-1-1 centers, lay bystander cardiopulmonary resuscita...

Recently natural disasters and man-made calamities happened very frequently in Taiwan, some of which caused hundreds of inhabitants died and injured. The most important thing that makes the emergency medical treatment system work effectively during these catastrophes is dependent on the accuracy and immediacy of the information among ambulances, hospitals, fire bureaus, public health bureaus or...

AIMS Hypoglycaemia is a serious medical emergency. The need for emergency medical service care and the costs of hypoglycaemic emergencies are not completely known. METHODS This was a retrospective observational study using Public Company for Health Emergencies (EPES) data for hypoglycaemia in 2012. The EPES provides emergency medical services to the entire population of Andalusia, Spain (8.5 ...

• Un diagnostic précoce de l’eczéma herpeticum et une thérapie antivirale systémique immédiate peuvent minimiser les complications graves et mortelles. Eczema herpeticum, also known as a form of Kaposi varicelliform eruption caused by viral infection, usually with the herpes simplex virus (HSV), is an extensive cutaneous vesicular eruption that arises from pre-existing skin disease, usually ato...

Autonomic dysreflexia is an important clinical diagnosis that requires prompt treatment to avoid devastating complications. The condition may present itself to all members of medical and surgical specialties, who may not be accustomed to treating it. It is the clinician's responsibility to have a basic understanding of the pathophysiology of the condition and the simple steps required to treat it.

Introduction: Medical emergencies can frequently happen in dental settings and inability to cope with them can lead to tragic outcomes. The of aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental settings in Babol, Iran and dentists’ self-perceived need for practical training in this field. Materials and Methods: A descriptive-ana-lytical study was performed ...

Edited by Roy Alson, MD, PhD, Medical Director, North Carolina Baptist AirCare; Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Howard A Bessen, MD, Program Director, Professor of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; John Halamka, MD, Chief Inf...

awareness of women about emergency contraception in urmia     bahadori f [1] *, ayatolahi h [2] , yekta z [3] , fallahi v [4] , fallahi s4, mehdioghli r4     received: 12 mar, 2012 accepted: 25 may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the aim of this study was awareness of women which were refer to family planning and kowsar center in urmia about emergency contraception.   materials & metho...